Apparently, Arctic Ocean freshwater will cause 'unpredictable changes on climate' - or, if your not a journalist, could possible cause some changes, but most probably will have little or no effect at all. You'll notice that despite the headline, no-one is quoted as saying anything will happen at all. The truth doesn't sell though. The booklet produced by CLAMER - on which this story is supposedly based - should eventually be available to download here.

Still, at least the Guardian is a bit more accurate than the Telegraph which falsely tells it's readers that "Average temperatures in Britain could fall by several degrees due to a massive pool of melted ice water heading south from the arctic, scientists have warned. " In which respect it's worth noting that the 8.2KA Event - when the Lake Aggasiz emptied into the Atlantic, in a matter of months, for the last time, triggering a switch off of the NAD, temperatures across Europe 'plumetted' by no more than 2c. The Gulf Stream (or rather NAD) does not warm Britain by between 5c and 10c! But what do you expect from the lowly gutter press that the once respected Telegraph has become?

And finally, the Cypriot Green party have donned their tinfoil hats ....... Greens call for Chemtrails to be investigated - as if hundreds of papers published in the past few decades on contrails wasn't enough! Trouble is, when loonies like this fall for the Hoax it appears to legitimise it in the eyes of other foolish and ignorant people .....

The idea of this blog is to produce a regular round up of global weather and related news stories which then acts as an archive. Some links may be lost in time but by searching the original headline on Google it should be possible to find related stories. Additionally, it gives me somewhere to add my own thoughts on some stories, as the mood takes me.